Daniela Velasco is a Mexican girl who, at just 17, won the bronze medalin the 400 meter dash in the T12 category (athletes with visual impairment, whose visual field is equal to or less than five degrees) at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.

And since Daniela is, above anything else, an elite athlete, we found it interesting to present to her a new challenge: to, for one day, run—not on a track—but to leave the track behind and join twenty thousand other people in running 10 km in this year’s Nike We Run, the race annually organized by Nike in Mexico’s major cities.
And so, after a couple of meetings with her and her family (who helped us carefully outline the mechanics of what we were proposing), we were fortunate enough that Daniela accepted the challenge which, in further detail, includes wearing Google Glass to live-broadcast her route and, in turn, allows us to relay (also) live messages of encouragement from the hundreds of people who will want to watch her complete this feat.